Mathilde Blind image
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Born in 1841 / Died in 1896 / Germany / German

Poems by Mathilde Blind

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The Torrent

...   It binds thy brows with thorns--thorns that will turn to rays! ...

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The Dying Dragoman

...  Whirled drifts of sand that rose and rolled ...

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Ah, If You Knew

...  Till love had healed me through and through, ...

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Mourning Women

...  Shifts gorgeous through each dazzling street and mart ...

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The Sakiyeh

...  Should shrink to give the borrowed lives they hold: ...

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A Spring Song

... Cuckoo calls and young lambs' bleating, ...

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In A Kentish Rose Garden

... Old thoughts so young, that, after all these years, ...

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Sleep

... Earth's ill-used step-children to thee make moan, ...

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New Year's Eve

... A honeyed haunt where bees would break their fast, ...

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Perfect Union

... and his wisdom is a meditation, not of death, but of life ...

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The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part III

...   V. "One night, ye know, from out the imminent gloom, ...

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I Took Your Face Into My Dreams

...   Your face was shining in my dreams ...

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In Spring

...   Sweet spendthrift of pleasure, ...

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Despair

... Nay! though my heart is breaking with its pain, ...

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Renunciation

...   And there floats o'er the fields, o'er the fallows, ...